Perception and Attitude of Microcredit Borrowers towards Effectiveness of Agricultural Diversification and Intensification Project in Bangladesh

Abstract

Government of Bangladesh (GoB) have made an effort to provide microcredit facility to the landless and marginal farmers in order to uplift their socioeconomic condition through Agricultural Diversification and Intensification Project. This study aims to assess whether the participants were benefited or not as a result of intervention of the project. Logit model was used to examine the influence of socioeconomic variables on the dichotomous dependent variable. The logit model results indicate that variables like year of schooling, number of training received by the borrowers, mobility of the borrowers and household size of the borrowers were significantly related with the dependent variable borrowers' betterment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]